Strategies Against Disruptive Politics In Comparative Intersectional Perspective

Open Session

We welcome papers on disruptive ultraright politics and feminist counterstrategies in comparative intersectional perspective. Disruptive ultraright politics have aimed at dismantling existing norms and politics for intersectional justice and at reducing or abolishing political institutions working for it. Their abrogation of equality approaches is combined with strong authoritarianism, a reduction of the classical democratic division of powers especially of an independent legal system and a delegitimation of feminist, antiracial and migrant movements. Their discursive politics are characterized by recourse on identity politics for the dominant ethnic group and gender and by calling for equality for these groups who supposedly have been suppressed by intersectional justice approaches. The focus is on the disruptive element aiming at a fundamental break from the welfare state and a fundamental reformation of gender and racial/ ethnic relations in an authoritarian digital capitalism.

Feminist, antiracial and migrant movements have debated the effects of disruptive politics and are searching for counterstrategies. In this session, we want to compare the

1. course of disruptive politics proposed by ultraright governments or political parties
2. and the responses and strategies by feminist and antiracial social movements in view of these politics

Points of comparison are i.a. the configurations of race and gender of the disruptive politics entrepreneurs, the scope of their reformation of intersectional justice and welfare institutions and the diverse types of gender welfare regimes as they provide different resources to feminist, antiracial and migrant actors.

Furthermore, we are looking for innovative theoretizations in this field.